Career Advice: Would you recommend or be more comfortable with Wage or Salary???

Well, basically, a friend of mine said he had to make this choice? Said company he worked at wanted to “Promote him” or give him a “managerial position/role” and pay him more? They did offer him a Salary payment for this job, but he did tell me he declined and said he would rather accept the job if it pays “Hourly Wage” not salary pay???

My question is; what would you do if you had to pick or choose for yourself at a job interview? Say they ask you at a job interview: “Would you rather accept a hourly wage or make a salary”?? Which one do you think is perhaps a “smarter” decision to make and why would you pick your choice? Thank you!!!

 

I am retired but my last position was a salary job. Basically it means that you can work as many hours as they want you to work. I would have made more money if I had been paid an hourly wage.

 

What Spectacles said. When on a salary, people are expected to work many more hours for no extra pay, but the pay would not be commensurate if working the same hours and getting paid BY the hour.

 

It depends you know if you are taking a salaried position you should ask how many hours you would be expected to work and make sure you have an agreement with management that they won't just make you work a bunch of overtime for free.

For example currently I am on salary but i never have to work overtime. But the hourly employees at my company actually do have to work overtime. So i'm sure they get paid more than I do, but at least I don't have to work overtime.

So salary or hourly its important to set boundaries with your employer about overtime.

So you'd have to understand how much OT you will be working, and determine which option pays more.

 

I preferred neither, actually. When I was banging roofing on, I wanted piecework. I pretty much made more than the salaried workers AND the hourly workers. I banged the shakes on the sidewall of the carpenters union in Hilo and made 8oo bucks that week in the early 70s. No one in the company I worked for liked that!! Bosses don't like a worker making more than they do.Too bad, so sad!!

 

Speaking for myself, as a gardener/landscaper(nl/eu)..................ill choose salary.

But it might mean something different in NL...........Salary means security. Steady contract,healthcare/steady build up in pay(promotion/years),pension.............no hassle with taxes

ZZP(hours) is very popular(better pay) here to,until the next economic crises or the taxes/healthcare/pension they forgot.ZZP also means they can fire you from day to day.

Mzzls

 

Actually though if you really want to have a good career you have to break the shackles of our capitalist overlords and start your own business.

 

Which I did.

 

Not good at selfpromotion and i hate admin,taxes and the other bla bla........lazy.........wage slave

Even within my current company(gardening/landscaping) i could go to admin/office(expierence/knowledge/respect).............but i still like to get my hands dirty, learn (young)people something(trade)..........

Mzzls

 

Mzzls

PS.

 

There are a few variables. Some people have commented on that if you're salaried, you might work more hours with no increase in pay, that the company is abusing salaried employees. I know that happens, but...I am salaried, and occasionally have had to work late/holiday/weekend whatever. But I also have unlimited vacation. I don't need to count sick days or anything like that. So in that situation, salary is ideal.

And, the inverse. If you're paid by the hour and miss too much work--even if through no fault of your own--you lose money.